[WillowTheWhisp]

Our temple is an important place to us but only in as much as what takes place there. If the building was 'de-dedicated' then the building itself wouldn't mean anything.

I can't understand why any religion would place more importance on something inanimate like a building than on the lives and souls of the people within it. That's one of the things I am most uncomfortable with in some other churches when people seem to revere the statues and images and almost worship them. I know not all people do but I've known plenty who do. They kiss the feet of the statues - so much so that the feet are all worn away from years of touching and kissing. What on earth is that all about?

Jesus preached in the open air. He didn't need a building. His most well remembered sermon was delivered from a mountain side.

Perhaps we should get the opinion of members of what was Cannon Street Baptsit church and find out how they feel about the building being up for sale. I remember a minister from there many years ago, Wilf Shewring, who wouldn't have had any objections to the building being sold and the money being made use of. It used to cost a fortune to heat the place and he used to say it was a waste of money. That was back when the old Sunday School part on Willow Street was sold off and the church interior was converted to make a smaller chapel and incorporate the Sunday School rooms into the same building.

Seriously though Blazey - if it wasn't sold and converted to a dwelling what do you suppose would have happened to it? I'd much rather see it survive as a building than collapse as a ruin.